HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080581210
Bassin de Rio São João
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Brumado, Dom Basílio, Livramento de Nossa Senhora
Sub-basin area
832,5km²
Upstream area
4 100,7km²
Discharge
8,17m³/s
Mean elev.
530m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São João480 km²
- Bassin de Riacho Maurocio275 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 454.5 km²54.8% of basin
- 283.7 km²34.2% of basin
- 91.2 km²11.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 280 distinct species · 2 838 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,4°C
Annual rain
595mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
44mm/an
PET
1 693mm
AET
502mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
494cm
Forest
3%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)